Hello cheeky-chappy/chappess! Well another Sunday and it had been a while since we had last met, but here we were ready for the start of Jon Pertwee's second season. Gathering around Shaun's house, with Gavin AND Shana in tow, we started watching this four-part box of delights….
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MJ: "Hello, I'm at Shaun's - we're all at Shaun's. I've got a Beatles mug with, erm, a tea. We've got Gavin here and Shana - just chatting to myself at the moment.... and we're watching 'Terror Of The Autons' - a four parter and the start of Pertwee's second season."
Mark: "Hello."
MJ: "Hello. I've just given an, err, intro to this to tell us what we're doing."
Jason: "What we doing with the!"
Shaun: "I'd say at this point that we've got about a 20% chance of ANY more tea as my kettle just exploded!"
MJ: "Ahh."
Shaun: "I don't know why."
Gavin: "Have you got any saucepans?"
Shaun: "Oh yeah I can boil some water in a saucepan or something."
MJ: "Have you got a camp fire?! Have you got a bivouac!!?"
Shana: "Haha! A bivouac!"
MJ: "I like saying the word 'bivouac'."
Shaun: "Why would I have a bivouac? I'm not Australian!"
MJ: "I don't think it's Australian?"
Shaun: "It definitely sounds Australian."
MJ: "It does SOUND Australian, but I don't think it's Australian."
Mark: "I think it is."
Jason: "You're thinking of a -"
Leigh: "- a Bunyip!"
Shana: "A bunyip? I've haven't heard that word for a long time!"
MJ: "Aren't they vegetables that make you cry when you cut them, and they've got many layers?"
Shaun: "No, that's an onion."
MJ: *Laughing* "Oh right. Isn't that a hard bit of skin you get on your foot??!"
Leigh: "A 'Bunyip' is like an Australian Bigfoot."
MJ: "Ahh, anyway we're going to start off! We're back with the Autons...."
Photo 1:
Gavin, Leigh,
Jason (holding the sign AND THE BOOK),
MJ, Shana (holding the DVD Cover) and Mark
around Shaun's house.
*PART ONE GETS WATCHED*
MJ: "End of first part and The Master's in it (hooray) for the first time!"
Shaun: "But NOT the first time as he's indicated he has past history with the Doctor."
MJ: "Oh yes, they've got form!"
Shaun: "Yes. What did he call him? A rapscallion or something?"
MJ: "Rapscallion? Yeah, was it? What was it he called him, The Master?"
Leigh: "A jackanapes!"
Shaun: "Yeah."
MJ: "A jackanapes! That's a great term. I'll get more thoughts after" *Singing* "Episode Twoooooooo!"
Photo 2:
Gavin, Leigh,
Jason (holding the sign)Shana
Shaun, Shana (holding the DVD Cover) and Mark
around Shaun's house.
*PART TWO GETS WATCHED*
Leigh: "This has had some of the sh**test deaths!"
Shaun: "Oh yeah, but the Autons don't look as unbelievably terrible as they did the first time around!"
*Mark Laughs*
Shana: "I like the look of it though!"
Shaun: "The Master is tremendously cool!"
MJ: "He is!! I think he's excellent! He's just very suave and -"
Gavin: "And the look!"
Shana: "Yeah it looks more, well it looks like it's got - I dunno, it just looks better!"
MJ: "Mmm."
Shana: "I dunno obviously budgets..."
Shaun: "Who's the new assistant?"
MJ: "Jo Grant."
Mark: "Jo."
Shaun: "Ahh, has she learnt to act over her tenure or...?"
Jason: "There's arc - I'm sure there's an arc."
MJ: "HEY! She's cool!"
Shana: "A mini Stevie Nicks."
MJ: "She is! She looks like a, errr, 70's boy or something!"
*Laughter*
Shana: "A 70's boy!!"
MJ: "She does - well just the hair-cut! But she's pretty cool. And I like the various deaths we've had."
Shaun: "Being pretty cool doesn't help her act!"
Leigh: *Laughing* "All the deaths have been DREADFUL!"
Shaun: "Someone was unnecessarily miniaturised and yet also still dead in a lunch box."
Leigh: "Was he dead?"
MJ: "Yeah I think so, he'd been compressed..."
Gavin: "I think you had the Dad that was savaged by that, errr -"
Leigh: "- by the Troll-Doll!"
Gavin: "Exactly!"
MJ: "The Troll-Doll!"
Shaun: "Then someone was killed by a plastic chair."
MJ: "That guy played by Harry Towb."
Jason: "The Master is imaginative and a bit of an arse."
Shana: "Bit Zod-y."
Mark: " I liked the deaths!"
MJ: "I did!"
Mark: "Yeah, they were stupid."
MJ: "I liked being suffocated by a chair - I thought that was brilliant! Being menaced and strangled by a little Troll-Doll thing!"
Mark: "Who DOESN'T want to see someone get suffocated by a chair!??"
Leigh: "And a man getting unnecessarily shrunk and put in a lunch box!"
*Laughter*
MJ: "That's fine!"
Mark: "Yeah!"
Jason: "I did want the guy, who got killed by the Troll-Doll, to have a fan next to him. So the Troll-Doll would keep being heated, woken up and then collapsing as the fan cooled him again!"
*Laughter*
Shaun: "Just as the fan turns!! I liked the fact that they took the time and the effort to make that horrible plastic doll thing, then get a guy in a costume to blue-screen doing it, for such a silly death!" *Laughter* " 'Cos really all he did at the end was just hold the plastic toy up to his neck - so you didn't need it moving at all!"
*Laughter*
MJ: "No."
Jason: "What, so you want it to just cutaway and it's there? Cut back, it's there! Cut back, it's there!"
*Laughter*
Shaun: "There's nothing they couldn't have done with a piece of string to make it look like it was getting up, rather than weird blue screen with a guy in a costume that didn't really look like the toy anyway!"
Jason: "I think the blue screen was him just standing around in the sets for most of it."
Shaun: "Oh yeah." *Laughing* "It was blue screen when she was in the telephone box!"
Leigh: "Have they just got a new blue screen? Is that what it was!!??"
MJ: "It does look err.....yeah...."
Shaun: "But I'll let most of those things go 'cos it was the seventies."
Shana: "Let it go."
Jason: "Yeah. It's like 'We don't need sets any more - we've got blue screen sets! We can save so much money!' "
*Laughter*
Shaun: "I really liked the Time Lord that just appeared in the air and just came closer! That was fun."
MJ: "Yes, the guy with the bowler hat."
Mark: "I liked that guy, does he come back?"
MJ: "I don't know that he does? He wasn't even given a name - I don't think. He was just like there to warn the Doctor that the Master was coming down."
Mark: "I also wish he'd turn up occasionally to condescend and then go!"
MJ: *Laughing* "And look bemused by everything."
*Mark laughs*
MJ: "He was like" *Posh voice* "'Yes, your mortal enemy is going to come down, errrrr, can't do anything about it, Old Chap, but I thought I'd let you know anyway! Anyway, chin-chin!' "
*Mark and MJ laugh*
MJ: "Are you enjoying it Gav and errr..."
Jason: "Yeah, who am I??"
MJ: "JASON!" *Laughing* "Had you seen it before Jay?"
Jason: "I HAVE seen this before, yes. Quite a long time ago, but I have seen it. I remember the Troll, I remember the chair. I can't remember what's gong to happen. I imagine it's got something to do with heat, since we've already been told what their weakness is! I'm pretty sure it's a lot to do with that! If it's not I'll be bloody disappointed!!" *Laughing* "Oh it's winter and they're all dead!!"
Mark: "Or surprisingly delighted."
MJ: "I'm pretty sure that Mary Whitehouse or her accolades did complain about the violence of either the guy getting suffocated by the (plastic) chair or the horror of the little Troll Doll."
Jason: "Well the Troll Doll makes sense because kids have things like that in their house.....and chairs as well!"
MJ: "Kids DO have chairs!"
Mark: "They do have chairs."
Jason: "Also they are aware of Policemen."
Mark: "Yes."
Jason: "And apparently THEY can kill you as well now, so watch out!"
Mark: "Watch out - don't ever trust a Policemen."
Jason: "THIS was the beginning of Society turning against Policemen. Up until this point it was 'Ask a Policeman and they're your friend.' At this point it was 'They're gonna kill you - with plastic faces'."
*Mark laughs*
MJ: "And with, err, is it the circus? That's quite fun."
Jason: "I assume the circus just must have been around nearby -'cos they can't afford a lot of stuff but they can afford to re-create a circus!"
MJ: "Oh yeah I suppose. There's a guy in this story, the big, black guy - he played Toberman in 'Tomb of The Cybermen'. He didn't say much in that...and he doesn't in this I don't think!"
Jason: "Is he called Toby or something?"
MJ: "Haha! He's still called the same is he?"
Jason: "Well in the book, he's just 'Strong Man', so..."
MJ: *Puts on voice* " 'You were Toberman in the last one so this one we're going to call you 'Toby'! COMPLETELY different.' "
*Jason laughs*
Mark: "It could be one of his ancestors. He was a strong man then again in the future."
MJ: "Yes on another planet."
Jason: "I can't remember where the other one was set in."
MJ: "Yes in the future!"
Leigh: "What about the future?"
Jason: "That's where 'Tomb of The Cybermen' was set."
Leigh: "Ahhh - so he's not the same person then?"
Mark: "No."
Leigh: "Same ACTOR but different CHARACTER."
MJ: "I reckon it's his ancestor!"
Mark: "Great-great-great-great-great-great-Grandad."
MJ: "TOBY!"
Jason: "Or NOT Toby."
MJ: "THAT is the question."
*Mark chuckles*
MJ: "Well I'm enjoying that it's been -"
Jason: "- We're just giving you more to type up! Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer-"
*Laughter*
MJ: "Keep on at that and I'll Shake my Spear at you! Heh. Penis."
*Laughter*
Leigh: "Good job you explained it - it was a bit subtle!"
MJ: "Mmm, that's my middle name - and John."
Leigh: "Michael John Subtle Fouldes?"
MJ: *Laughing* "That's right! Well Michael SUBTLE John!"
Mark: "I think Michael John PENIS Fouldes!" *Laughing*
MJ: "That's my baptism name! You get an extra one when you're baptised! And Reverend Peter gave me 'Penis'."
Leigh: "I got baptised! I didn't have an extra name?!"
MJ: "No, I'm joking - I making stuff up!! Imagine that!"
Mark: "That's when you get confirmed - not when you get baptised."
MJ: "Yeah - then the Vicar came back in a said 'I can confirm that definitely IS Michael'."
Mark: *Laughing* "Penis Fouldes!"
MJ: *Laughing* "Penis Fouldes!"
Leigh: *Laughing* "Michael Penis Fouldes?!"
MJ: "You can identify me by the Penis Fouldes, here and here!"
*Laughter*
MJ: "This is GREAT stuff! This is ALL going in, definitely!"
*Shaun and Shana come back in*
MJ: "Oh I was going to say 'Are you going to make another drink', Shaun. But of course you can't!"
Shaun: "I am! I'm boiling a saucepan!"
Jason: "Egg."
Shaun: "I am not boiling an egg!"
MJ: "Boiling some rags as well, 'cos I feel I'm going to give birth."
Shana: "Rags?"
MJ: "Yeah you boil up rags, don't you, to get ready for the birthing process."
Shana: "Maybe in the 1800s!"
MJ: "Yeah? I live in the past!"
Mark: "Yes."
Photo 3:
Jason (holding the sign and THE BOOK), Leigh, MJ,
Shana (holding the DVD Cover) and Mark
around Shaun's house.
*PART THREE GETS WATCHED*
MJ: "I had to stop it after Episode Three as we've just had the cliff-hanger of The Doctor being strangled by a telephone wire - an extra LONG telephone wire!"
Jason: "Probably the best cliff-hanger ever in Doctor Who, I would say!"
*Laughter*
MJ: "Still enjoying the story, Mr. Shaun?"
Shaun: "Erm, yeah. It's quite good!"
Jason: "It's silly but it's good."
MJ: "It IS silly!"
Shaun: "The deaths are ridiculous, but that's fine!"
Leigh: "It's not! It's not fine!"
Shaun: *Laughing* "It IS fine!"
MJ: "Okay on to Part Four!"
Photo 4:
Happy Jason (holding the sign)
around Shaun's house.
Happy Jason (holding the sign)
around Shaun's house.
*PART FOUR GETS WATCHED*
MJ: "And that's the end of the fourth part and The Master's going to stay with them on Earth - 'cos the Doctor's nicked his de-materialism circuit!"
Jason: "He should carry spares with him!"
MJ: "He SHOULD carry spares, yeah."
Mark: "Or at least have, like, AA cover."
*Laughter*
MJ: "Surely that would be TA? It's not an automobile is it?"
Mark: "Huh?"
MJ: "TARDIS, errrr, Association - if AA is the, err, Automobile Association."
Leigh: "Green Flag!"
MJ: "Blue Flag!"
Gavin: "What about the RAC?..."
MJ: "So that was the end -" *Laughter* "- of 'Terror Of The Autons' - was that good?"
Jason: "It was alright - there were bits of it I didn't like - there were bits I DID like. I DON'T like the fact that the villain, err, who obviously gets into a collaboration with another villain and then always in the last ten minutes goes 'Oh actually it was a bad idea all along - I'm going to change my plan!' "
MJ: "Yeah. 'I'll work with The Doctor now!' "
Jason: "Yeah."
MJ: "Well I think they'll learn from that and that will NEVER happen with The Doctor and The Master again!!"
*Laughter*
Jason: "Good! I'm glad they've learnt there lesson."
Shaun: "I quite liked that particular way of going about it, because, yes, we've seen it happen a billion times before BUT it gives the Master, erm, kind of a level of antipathy towards The Doctor. Basically his plan was to be on Earth, probably to f**k the Doctor's s**t up, then thought to himself 'Yeah...they're (The Autons) probably going to kill me as well, so I'll GRUDGINGLY work with you this time and the next seven times - but the TIME AFTER THAT my plan WILL succeed and you'll be destroyed!!!' "
*Laughter*
MJ: "Hah! Do you like The Master in this one?"
Shaun: "Very much!"
MJ: "Yeah."
Shaun: "I thought he's great."
MJ: "I very much think so!"
Shaun: "I also like the re-designed Autons."
MJ: "Yes, I can't wait to see them again...in like FORTY years time!!"
*Laughter*
Leigh: *Laughing* "I want the plastic chair have it's own episode!?"
*Laughter*
Jason: "Maybe a radio drama."
Shaun: "I do think we should talk about that actually. What was your favourite stupid death?"
*Leigh laughs*
Shaun: "Or attempted death? Because I did like the phone cord one."
Leigh: "The phone cord was good, yeah."
Shaun: "They telegraphed it well, it was really stupid, it was easily resolved - it was pretty awesome!"
Jason: "The chair was the opposite of that because it was not telegraphed at all - other than 'We have a chair - take a seat.' "
MJ: *Master voice* "TAKE A SEAT!"
Jason: "There was no build up to it. It was just - oh he's dead."
Shaun: "Yeah."
MJ: "I liked the little Troll man just running up and attacking and then his Missus coming in and going 'Arrrgghhh!' "
Jason: "I kind of like it but I think it could have been done better and -"
Shaun: "- You THINK it could have been done better?!"
*Laughter*
Shaun: "It is an absolute FACT that it could have been done better!"
*Laughter*
Jason: "It could have been a better model - it could have been a better effect."
Shaun: "Literally ANYTHING could have been made better!"
Jason: "It seemed to be the only one with any major, erm, weak points - it's temperature control."
Shaun: "Yeah and it was that they just shot it and it was destroyed."
MJ: "They shot it's arm off - bang bang bang!"
Jason: "Just the arm, yeah!"
MJ: "I liked the elaborate deaths of the UNIT soldiers! They were acrobatic weren't they? When they got shot at and they went 'Woooahh!' "
Jason: "Jumping off trampolines."
MJ: "Over the - well, yeah!"
Leigh: "Well UNIT did manage to recruit a load of people from the Circus!" *Laughter* "Which is why they died in acrobatic ways!"
MJ: "I suppose so."
Mark: "They're not really soldiers they're just trampoline people."
*Laughter*
MJ: "We never did find out what happened to the Circus people, did we?"
Shaun: "Yeah, they were all arrested by UNIT."
MJ: "Oh, okay right."
Shaun: "Lethbridge-Stewart mentioned that."
MJ: "So he did."
Jason: "What Circus people?"
Leigh: "The elephants."
Shaun: "Well The Master showed up and said 'I absolutely MUST have your help!' "
Jason: "Oh yeah."
Shaun: "And then, basically, the guy (the Circus owner) knocked out a guard and his TARDIS was near a Circus?"
Jason: "He let him have a parking space for a while."
Mark: "No, he was keeping it hidden though."
Shaun: "Yeah but his TARDIS can turn into ANYTHING! Even so, it was a horse box so it could have been anywhere and not been MASSIVELY out of place."
Mark: "It would have been CLEARLY suspicious anywhere else."
Shaun: "No!!"
*Laughter*
Leigh: "Like a farm."
Mark: "Yeah."
Leigh: "That would have been ridiculous!"
Shaun: "Really like I thought that was going to be important - it REALLY wasn't! The guy who played The Master was good though!"
MJ: "He's very good."
Shaun: "I enjoyed him very much."
MJ: "Yes and I'm glad he's (possibly) going to be in it some more, yes. But erm, Jo Grant? What do you think of her?"
Shaun: "Who's that? The new assistant?"
MJ: "Yeah."
Jason: " 'Who's that'?! Good start!"
*Laughter*
Mark: "A real impact on Shaun there!"
Shaun: "She's nice enough to look at but she's not a very good actor, so..."
MJ: "Awww."
Shaun: "I hope she gets better!"
Leigh: "Rubbish."
Jason: "She's not Liz Shaw is she?"
Shaun: "She's ALSO not Liz Shaw! That's not my MAIN problem."
MJ: "What about you, Mark, did you enjoy her?"
Mark: "I'd seen her before in other stories."
Shaun: "Yeah."
Mark: "And she's better than in this one I have to say, so yeah."
Jason: "I'm hoping she's got an arc."
Shaun: "Sorry?"
Jason: "So she can redeem herself - her acting."
Leigh: "An ark? Like Noah?"
Shaun: "Yeah but you don't have a story arc that improves your ability to act."
MJ: "Who built the ark?"
Leigh: "Noah."
MJ: "Noah?"
Leigh: "Noah."
MJ: "Who built the ark?! Brother Noah!??"
*Laughter*
Shaun: "Her story arc should concentrate on her character evolving."
Jason: "Well maybe she's not a bad actor. Maybe her character was just silly at saying things."
Mark: "I think they didn't really know what they wanted her to be yet. They were like 'Oh let's put a girl in' - "
MJ: "It's her first episode!"
Shaun: "That is a fair point."
Mark: "She's not much of a character yet."
Shaun: "Yeah but then on the other hand there was her looking in the window of the horse-box thing - no, the Circus caravan."
*Shana giggles*
Mark: "That was awesome."
Shaun: "That was really funny!"
*Laughter*
Jason: "She's MEANT to be a bit simple."
*Laughter*
Shaun: "Her character's meant to be a bit daft??!"
Jason: "Yeah! Well the last one, Liz, had the qualifications of a Scientist and everything, and this one did O-Level Science!"
Shaun: "This one's essentially an intern! Work experience!"
*Mark giggles*
MJ: "And the actress, later on, posed naked with a Dalek."
Jason: "She did."
Shaun: "Did she? Hold on, let's have a look!" *Gets out mobile phone*
*Laughter*
Shaun: "What's her name?"
Mark: "Now he's interested!"
MJ: "Katy Manning."
Shaun: "Katy Manning!" *Types in on mobile*
Jason: "Katy with a Y."
MJ: "She's often replied to me on Twitter."
Shaun: "Has she?"
Jason: "Yes, 'Go away MJ!' "
Mark: " 'Stop asking for pictures MJ!' "
*Laughter*
MJ: "She always comes across as nice! Apparently really terribly short-sighted as well! She says a lot of times she couldn't see a thing of what was going on - "
Shaun: *Finding THE photos and laughing* "- She legitimately DID pose naked with a Dalek!!!"
MJ: "I told you!"
Gavin: "Really?"
Shaun: "Yeah, I'll bring it over! There."
Gavin: "Oh yeah!"
Jason: "She's wearing boots! That's not naked!"
MJ: "Aren't they glittery boots as well?"
Jason: "No they're brown."
MJ: "Brown?"
Jason: "Brown."
Leigh: "Braahhhhn!"
Jason: "All brown."
Leigh: "Like a brown rose."
MJ: "So that's nice isn't it."
Shaun: "Not even the first Doctor Who assistant I've seen naked."
MJ: "Who's that then? The first one?"
Shaun: "That weird, thing - what was that weird show we watched The Wachowskis' show we watched on Netfilx."
Mark: "Oh yeah, I forgot about that! Errr 'Sense8'."
Shaun: " 'Sense8'. It has Martha in it as a lesbian in like a really forced 'LOOK we have LESBIANS in our show!!!' And of course whilst TRYING to be feminist she gets completely naked."
MJ: "Wow."
Shaun: "Yeah."
Mark: "That doesn't stop."
Jason: "Basically 'Torchwood' then. That had lesbians in it."
Shaun: "You don't act as if you're having a feminist point and then just get the women naked!" *Laughing* "That kind of negates itself!"
Gavin: "It could be worse, it could be the Wachowski brothers - now SISTERS - getting naked!"
Shaun: "Yeah, I wasn't the only one who saw that - the other -"
Gavin: "- We were discussing that with Mark."
Shaun: "- The other one's now having the Op now as well!"
MJ: "WHAT??!! Who ARE these people!!??"
Shaun: "The Wachowskis."
Jason: " 'The Matrix'."
Shaun: "They made Sci-fi AFTER 1970, MJ. You'll never have heard of it!"
MJ: "I've watched 'The Matrix' but I don't know anything about the Bulowskis!"
*Laughter*
Shaun: "Wachowskis!"
MJ: "The Russkies! The film with, err, Joaquin Phoenix!"
Leigh: "Bulowski? Wasn't he the landlord in, erm -"
MJ: "- Oh! 'The Young Ones'!"
Leigh: "Yeah."
MJ: "Alexei Sayle - it's something like that!"
Shaun: "Anyway! We've strayed from the point of Doctor Who!"
*Laughter*
MJ: "I suppose we should give it scores - points out of ten! Shaun? He says...."
Shaun: "I'm going to give it six point three four murderous daffodils out of ten!"
*Laughter*
Shaun: " 'Cos I quite liked it - it could have been better, but pretty much all of the fundamentals were all right and, as ridiculous as they were, I did like the stupid deaths and the attempted murders!"
MJ: "Yeah that amused me too - I think I'll give it eight -"
Shaun: "- Wow."
MJ: "- I quite enjoyed it."
Gavin: "I'll give it eight as well."
MJ: "Eight from Gavin."
Jason: "Seven - it was entertaining but it doesn't deserve a bigger score."
Mark: "I'll give it seven point one metres of murderous phone cord!"
*Laughter*
Shana: "Brilliant."
MJ: "Excellent - Leigh?"
Leigh: "Six."
Shana: "Six point nine."
MJ: "Sixty-Nine! Dude."
Mark: "Dude."
MJ: "So what did The Book think?"
Shaun: "What did we REALLY think!?"
MJ: *Mocking book-type voice* " 'Two, err, daffodils were actually made -"
*Laughter*
Jason: "I'd be surprised if more than one was made!"
MJ: "Actually I think it was from a real life thing at the time and they were giving away free plastic flowers away with detergent."
Jason: "It was from an advert!"
Shaun: "He did specifically reference that."
MJ: "Ahh well there you go then!"
Jason: "Everybody gets one and thinks 'Oh this might kill me'." *Reads through book* "Ahhh, stuff happens... that's not interesting....'Locations included Robert Brothers Circus, Leyton' - Oh I come from there!"
*Laughter*
Jason: *Reading* " 'Errr and Thermo Plastics, Dunstable. New assistant Jo Grant, arch-villain The Master and the UNIT soldier Captain Mike Yates all made their début appearances'."
MJ: "Oh yeah, Mr. Yates!"
Shaun: "I meant to say something about him: He's a real non-entity - I hope he goes away!"
*Laughter*
Leigh: "Well, clearly NOT if it's his début appearance!"
Jason: "Well apart from Benton and the Brigadier, he's got more character than - well he was doing stuff, he was a bit flirty -"
Shaun: "- No I KNEW he was a character who hung around for a while I did mean to say something about him but when I finally saw it I was like 'Urrr.' "
Mark: "He has more cocoa than any other character."
MJ: "Yes!"
Jason: "Oh WOW it's the shortest verdict ever!"
MJ: "Oh right?"
Jason: "I assumed the NEXT bit was the verdict but no - that's the NEXT episode!" *Reading* " 'The Autons barely feature in this tacky but more exciting remake of 'Spearhead From Space'. The various plastic-related killings are gleefully inventive. Eight out of Ten.' "
MJ: "Oh! Same as me! Me and 'The Book', yeah, K-I-S-S-I-N-G!!"
Mark: "We're merging!"
Shaun: "We're all relatively positive. I thought the book would be like: 'The phone chord was RIDICULOUS, The Autons were CRAP and The Master's first appearance was BARELY worth it - One out of Ten!' "
*Laughter*
MJ: "I liked him - I liked the floating Time Lord at the beginning."
Shaun: "By the way THIS one FINALLY did go full-Bond! The Master showed up with his gun - he did the whole monologue."
MJ: "Yeah."
Shaun: "The Doctor had the part of his time machine - he was like 'Oh you CAN'T kill me!' Yeah, it's been wavering towards full-on Bond for a while but it was nice to get it."
*Laughter*
Shana: "And of course Leigh with his amazing 'Quick to the UNIT mobile!' "
*Laughter*
Shaun: "Yes the really sh***y car!"
Mark: "I hope that turns up more."
MJ: "Yeah the little Maxi! THAT'S not UNIT issue, is it?? SURELY!"
Leigh: "Well the reason they were SO intent on stopping the coach was that they had dibs on it!"
*Laughter*
Leigh: "As a troop transporter!"
Shaun: *Laughing* "Like the next one is going to be almost EXACTLY the same except whatever was painted on the side will be crossed out and 'UNIT' scrawled in black paint!"
MJ: "They'll be like 'Benton, all the tanks and stuff are in repairs at the moment - still, I've got my Nan's car!..."
*Laughter*
Shaun: "Well, no! No. HERE is why UNIT don't send out tanks, yeah:
Small hand guns - they're alright.
Grenades - smaller than a hand gun, they can actual kill sh*t.
The BIGGER the gun the more likely the UNIT person is going to be immediately killed!
This one was a perfect example - the guy with the machine gun, didn't even SEE the Auton, got shot in the chest! The guy with the f**king Gatling Gun thing, THREE of them blew up behind that! THAT'S why they don't have tanks!! They would wipe out UNIT in it's entirety! It would probably take Sussex with it!!"
*Laughter*
MJ: *Fierce voice* "TAKE SUSSEX!!"
Shaun: "I mean come on! 'So, Lethbridge-Stewart, why do we attach C-4 to our own guns?' 'Ssshh! You look better when you're blown-up by the enemy! Now get on that trampoline!!' "
*Laughter*
MJ: " 'And make the coffee!' Important work. And that is where I'll leave it for today! Thanks for listening, Readershhh-whatever!"
Shaun: "Thanks for watching this, erm, this, this aerial display of the Circus of Nonsense."
*MJ sings 'The Magic Roundabout' theme....*
Photo 5:
Gavin, Leigh,
Jason (holding the sign),
Shaun, Shana (holding the DVD Cover) and Mark
around Shaun's house.
****************************************************************************************************Phew well that was that - a delay in writing-up as these things take AGES to do! Next time we meet it will be for a story I've not watched yet (and the DVD is still in the post to me!). The scores for this one - which we seemed to enjoy were:
Jason - 7/10
Leigh - 6/10
Mark - 7.1/10
MJ - 8/10
Shaun - 6.34/10
Gavin - 8/10
Shana - 6.9/10
Leigh - 6/10
Mark - 7.1/10
MJ - 8/10
Shaun - 6.34/10
Gavin - 8/10
Shana - 6.9/10
Which gives us an average of 7.049 (etc) out of 10!
So not a bad start to our Third Doctor's second season! The Master in particular was very popular. We shall see if Jo Grant will become popular as well. Well that's it - until the next time.
Until then, I shall return, yes I shall return
MJ - 29-03-16
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